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View synonyms for coffin nail

coffin nail

noun

, Slang.
  1. a cigarette.


coffin nail

noun

  1. a slang term for cigarette
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of coffin nail1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

They underwent DNA testing, bone analysis and the evaluation of archaeological evidence that was found, including 19th century coffin nails.

The Romans hammered nails into doors to avert plagues and pounded coffin nails into thresholds to keep nightmares at bay.

Human skulls are pierced with coffin nails and human bones are turned into Ouija board pieces; almost nothing is off-limits in the U.K.’s thriving online human remains trade, a Live Science investigation has found.

Talk about a coffin nail in an already struggling downtown retail and residential core.

The skeletons were lodged in a dirt wall, close to coffin nails that appeared centuries old.

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